From US News, "Experts: STEM Education is All About Jobs":
Continue ReadingOne thing was clear at Tuesday's science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...
Business Roundtable President John Engler participated in a "keynote conversation" this morning at the U.S. News & World Report Summit on “Making Science Cool: Solving the Shortage...
Continue ReadingCNBC has interviewed quite a number of Business Roundtable-member CEOs this week, and Wednesday's talk with Alcoa's Klaus Kleinfeld and Duke Energy's Jim Rogers provided good perspective on the sluggish U.S. economy and the need for policymakers to make competitiveness a priority. (...
Continue ReadingReading through our many e-mails from the Union of Concerned Scientists, we find the predictable outrage over President Obama's instructions to the EPA in early September that the agency withdraw its proposed rule to lower ozone limits. Excerpt:
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Continue ReadingThe U.S. Department of Labor provided a welcome sign today that the Obama Administration can indeed practice regulatory restraint when the DOL’s Employee Benefits Security Administration announced it would reconsider its proposed rule that would have expanded the definition of “fiduciary.” (...
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